Intrapartum fetal monitoring today
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Nadav Schwartz
Abstract
The literature on intrapartum fetal monitoring is reviewed emphasizing the pathophysiology, and current practice guidelines are discussed. FHR monitoring, ancillary tests, and investigational modalities are considered.
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- Placental Doppler velocimetry in gestational diabetes mellitus
- Induction of labor with oral misoprostol in nulliparous mothers of twins
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- Tele-virtual sonography
- The effect of betamethasone administration on uterine motility in pregnancy. A prospective study using four-channel tocography
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- The efficacy of first-trimester PAPP-A and free βhCG levels for predicting adverse pregnancy outcome
- Sonographic monitoring of systemic and local methotrexate (MTX) therapy in patients with intact interstitial pregnancies
- The Northwestern twin chorionicity study: testing the ‘placental crowding’ hypothesis
- Combined first trimester screening for trisomy 21: lack of agreement between risk calculation methods
- Neonatal septicemia in high risk babies in South-Eastern Nigeria
- Maternal antenatal administration of vitamin K1 results in increasing the activities of vitamin K-dependent coagulation factors in umbilical blood and in decreasing the incidence rate of periventricular-intraventricular hemorrhage in premature infants
- Antenatal diagnosis of velocardiofacial syndrome by 3D ultrasonography
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